Junited-2026
I'm developing a deeper appreciation of the small web, so deciding to put my head above the parapet and actually participate which isn't always an easy thing for me.
I'd been thinking for a long time about the internet, social media and how it changed the web I remember from about 1999-200? maybe up to about 2010 before social media really got a foot hold. Then a year ago on holiday, I spent a lot of time reading Kev Quirks blog and seeing a guy similar in employment, age and location (UK) to me, talking about the same stuff I was thinking about. Since then I've tried to spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing on the indie/small web. I've had blogs before, but usually ran into the problem of making them about 1 thing that interested me rather than a more general thing. This is my first 'general' blog - started with history then drifts a bit between whatever else I'm interested in, but mostly comes back to history as a means of writing up my notes, showing off pictures and generally looking at stuff that I find interesting. Maybe someone else out there will too and that surely is the aim.
So Junited - I'll just slowly add to this page across the month.
Binary Digit - Leaving the tech world Featured as number 1 in Bear today so I doubt it needs much advertising, but its interesting to me as someone whose day job is now increasingly abstracted with AI and Cloud computing. All techies I've ever know had/have a plan to leave tech... and I certainly do, but I've been doing this a long time, its what I know and I'm not sure where I'd land either.